Cigar-mold



(No Model.)

F- C. MILLER.

.GIGAR MOLD.

N0. 364,183. Patented May 3l, 1887.

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UNITED STATES- NPATENT OFFICE..

FREDRICK C. MILLER, OF NEWPORT, KENTUCKY.

CIGAR-MOLD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 364,183, dated May 31, 1887.

Application filed December El, lSEG. Serial No. 221,126. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDRICK C. MILLER, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Newport, county of Campbell, State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gigar-Molds, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates, first, to the eXpellerbar for raising the pressed cigar-bunches from the lower matrices, and, secondly, to the metallic sheathing for affording a sharp edge to 111e cups of the upper matrix-board.

The invention consists in certain features of novelty particularly pointed out in the claims, being first fully described with reference to the accompayingdrawings, in which* Figure I is a face view of the upper and lower matrix-boards or halves of the cigarmold. Fig. Il is alongitudinal section ofthe mold on the line II II, Fig. I, showing the upper matrix raised slightly from the under part. Fig. III is atrausverse section of the mold, the parts being in the same position as in Fig. II. Fig. IV is a detail view of one ofthe sections of the sheathing.

The lower half of the cigar-mold is made up of a backing, 1, to which is glued the block or strip 2, in which the matrices 8 are formed.

To form a bar for expelling the pressed cigar-bunches from the matrices, I eut the the lower matrix-board longitudinally into three parts or strips, the planes of the two cuts being parallel when considered with relation to the length of the mold, and converging downward when considered with relation to the depth of the mold. The intermediate strip or bar, 4, thus formed will of course be of wedge shape-in cross-section and iit accurately the space between the two outer sections, as shown more clearly in Fig. III. The extremities of the bar4 are then cut off in such a manner that each of the detached portions 6 will have a lip or lug, 6, overhanging alip or lug, 4, projecting from the extremity of the main or intermediate portion of the bar 4. I prefer to accomplish this by cutting the bar nearly through (more than half-way) from the top toward the bottom-in the plane z, for example-and then forming a similar cut from the bottom toward the top in another plane (x, for example) nearer the end of the bar than the plane e. The end is then broken off and the wood which is severed from the main body by the two cuts removed, leaving a space, 5, between the l ugs 4 and 6 when the parts 4 and `G are placed end to end. The parts are then placed in proper position, as shown in the drawings, and secured together by woodscrews 7. These screws pass through the blocks 6, so as to hold them against displacement. It will be secu that the space 5 will enable the bar 4 to be elevated until the lugs 4 ou its ends come into Contact with the lugs 6 on the blocks 6, this movement being for the purpose of lifting the cigar-bunches out of the matrices. The wedge shape of this bar .and its downward-converging seatwillbeseen to prevent it from sinking below its proper position-z'. c., such position as shall bring the planes of its several surfaces into coincidence with the corresponding surfaces of the body of the mold. To facilitate the lifting of the bar 4 when it is made very thin,the under side ofthe board l is recessed or notched, as shown at 10, to admit the operators fingers.

The upper half of the mold is constructed with the customary backing, 11, and cups 8, of wood, formed separately and secured thereto (preferably by gluing) at such distances apart that they will enter the matrices 3 of thelower half of the mold, thus constituting the followers for compressing the bunches into proper shape when the two parts of the mold are pressed together.

It is important that the edges of the cups S should be sharp, in order to avoid breaking the continuity of the pressingsurfaces of the matrices. For this reason it is customary to secure to the outside of each cup a sheathing of sheet metal, which is susceptible of being dressed to a sharp edge.

I do not claim a cup having an external meh tallic sheath, for such I know to be not new, my invention being confined to certain peculiarities in their construction and arrange ment.

Heretofore it has been customary to form the sheathing for both sides of one cup of a single piece of metal surrounding the outer edges and ends of the cups.

My invention consists in an integral metallic sheath, 9, for the adjacent sides of two cups,

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the construction being shown in Fig. IV.

The portions 9, which form the sheathing for the adjacent sides of two of the cups 8, are

united by a web, 9b. The end cups present a single right-angled strip of metal on the outside edge.

Many advantages arise from uniting the sheaths for two adjacent cups, among which may be mentioned that they form stiffer edges to the cups, and are less liable to spring away `from the wooden cups, and facilitate the fitting of the wooden cups in the lower cavities perfectly, while at the same time they are easily secured to their` places.

The sheathings, being accurately made, are placed on the partitions of the lower cavities of the mold, then the cups fitted between the sheathings in the lower cavities, thereby enabling an accuratefitting and registration of the cups to the lower part of the mold, and while the cups are in the lower cavities the backing is glued on them, and the sheathings afterward made fast to their respective places on the upper half of the mold between the cups.

I do not claim in this application anything shown in Patent No. 17 5,57 3,which was granted to me on the 4th of April, 1876.

Having thus described my inveniion,the following is what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In a half cigar-mold, a backing carrying the matrices and divided longitudinally into two separate parts, an eXpeller-bar interposed between the adjacent faces of said parts, having notches corresponding with the matrices, and means for securing the two longitudinal parts or strips of Ythe backing together-attire proper distance asuuder, substantially as set forth.

2. In a half cigar-mold, a backing carrying the matrices and divided longitudinally into two separate parts, an eXpeller-bar interposed between the adjacent faces of said parts, having notches corresponding with the matrices, the blocks at the extremities of the eXpellerbar interposed between the adjacent faces of the two parts of the backing, and the screws for securing the parts together, substantially as set forth.

3. In a halfcigar-mold, the backing carrying the matrices, divided into three separate longitudinal strips by two longitudinal ents in planes transverse to the said matrices, and means for holding the two outside strips in contact with the sides of the intermediate strip when the parts are placed together, so that the several sections of the matrices coincide, substantially as set forth.

4. In a cigar-mold7 the lower section having a slot whose sides converge downward and an eXpeller-bar whose sides fit-accurately the sides of the slots and the matrices formed, substantially as set forth.

5. In a half cigar-mold, the backing carrying the matrices,divided by two longitudinal cuts in planes which are transverse to the matrices and converge downward,whereby the backing, with the attached matrices, is divided into three separate longitudinal strips, the intermediate strip being of wedge shape in crosssection, and means for securing the two outer strips together at the proper distance asuuder, substantially as set forth. y

6. In aeigar-mold, the lower section having a slot whose sides converge downward, and lugs 6, projecting into said slot, in combination with an eXpeller-bar having sides fitting accurately the sides of the said slot, and a lug, 4, projecting beneath the lng 6, substantiall y as set forth.

7. In a cigar-mold, the lower section having a slot therethrough, an eXpcller-bar fitted in said slot, and the notches 10, cut in the backing, substantially as set forth.

8. In a cigar-mold, the upper section consisting of a backing, cups, each formed separatelyand secured thereto,and metallic sheathings for the outsides of said cups, the sheathings for the sides of two adjacent cups being united, so as to form gages for insuring the accurate placing of the several cups with relation to'each other.

9. In a cigar-mold, the upper section consisting of the backing l1, cups 8, secured thereto, and the sheathing-sections 9, fitted between the adjacent cups, each section consisting ofthe strips 9, for fitting the opposite sides of two adjacent cups,and the web 9b, connecting said strips, substantially as set forth.

10. rIhe combination, with the upper cups of a cigar-mold, of a sheathing-section for the adjacent faces of each two adjacent cups, con'A sisting of a pair of strips, each bent to conform to the side of the cup it is designed to tit, and a web connecting said strips, the whole being formed of a single piece of material, substantially as set forth.

1l. rlhe combination, with the upper cups of a cigar-mold, of a sheathingsection for the adjacent faces of each two adjacent cups, consisting of a pair of strips, each bent to conform to the side of the cup it is designed to` fit, rigidly connected together,for the purpose set forth.

FREDRICK C. MILLER. lVitnesses:

FRANK C. MILLER,

N. DU BRUL.

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